The only "code" I see on that book is the name "Okajima" and what appears to me to be the date "5-9-44." CA 40 is cover dated 7/44 so a 5/44 issuance date is consistent with the cover date. Is the "5-9-44" on all the comic books regardless of the approximate dates they came out, or are other numbers consistent with dates on other books from the collection?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything that refers ot the building where she was confined. Can you transcribe that part of the "code" so I know what you are referring to?

The story seems a little implausible to me because the internees obtained their comic books from camp stores. They weren't confined to a barracks like a POW camp, but had freedom of movement within the camp (and actually some were also allowed to take trips outside the camps also). I suppose she might have put her "address" (e.g., the building number she lived in) on the comic, but there is no way that was done by any camp officials.

As for the penmanship, back in the 40s kids learned cursive (unlike, in some schools, today) and used it frequently. And the Japanese kids were often excellent students. The penmanship looks like school-girl cursive to me.

and when you do finally see the third component of the "code," you'll not be able to say it's like the church books ultimate number, that relates to how many issues were distributed to the seller, since you say it was a schoolgirl who is doing the writing.

we think/understand that the last aspect of the code deals with where she was housed.

and tho' it's incapable of proof, i'd bet my hat, a$$ and overcoat that is wasn't a little girl who wrote on those books.

so you think the clerk at the "company store" or the distributor wrote the date and the short numerical code, and that the little girl wrote "okajima." you think two different hands/pens were involved, right?

i dare say you would be in a mitch medhy-type minority in that view. it could not be more obvious to me that the same person/pen is writing ALL of the notations we see.

So take a chill pill.

Boom! That's some special kind of lawyering action right there.

If the girl didn't write the code then code must have been written by the camp.
Camp-coded.

I don't see how you can concluded that the word "Okajima" is the same hand as the numbers or even the letters "x" and "g" as there are absolutely zero points of comparison. In my profession, I occassionally use handwriting experts, and I don't think there's enough data to do the analysis. So we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Not sure why you got your panties in a wad over this, but I view your attempt to compare me to Mitch Mehdy as sort of a violation of "Goodwin's Law" at least as applied to this sight.